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U.S. Sen. Joni Enrst received a first-hand look last week at how a University of Northern Iowa program is helping low-income Cedar Valley students gain access to and succeed in higher education, while also learning how the program is growing to help more people. The event Thursday at UNI’s Center for Urban Education (better known as UNI-CUE), which recently signed another 10-year-lease for it’s downtown Waterloo headquarters, brought attention to the broad range of programs on offer.  Erns...

SPS ROSE banquet: Hillcrest High Schools Top 10 in Class of 2021 Ten Hillcrest High School seniors will be honored April 15 during the Springfield districts Recognition of Scholastic Excellence, or ROSE, banquet. Each year, the 10 graduating students with the highest GPA from each high school are honored. This year, due to ties in GPA, Kickapoo and Parkview high schools each have 11 honorees. The News-Leader will showcase students from each high school this week. The ROSE banquet will be hosted...

Funeral for a young man in philadelphia who was shot and killed. we had here in des moines, just three years ago, a teenager who had been part of our churchs tutoring program who was shot and killed. as you know, the rates of gun violence in america are astronomically higher than in other western democracies. what do you think can be done, and what would you be prepared to do to address the problem of gun violence? >> yeah. well, thank you, pastor. and i know that for folks like you who have to ...

Important to kids opportunities for service. my daughter had an opportunity to work as it a tutor at public school. i said you know what? our local catholic school cant afford that i wonder if you could volunteer. she started a tutoring program at the local elementary catholic school. now her siblings are a part of that program. i think we also as parents have to guide them. i dont think she could have come up with that idea herself. she was willing to serve. she needed a parent to guide her int...

Just changing one life, one meal, one day at the shelter or one kid that remembers something you said in a tutoring program, if we all did that more, and i fall short, too. i know and i want to do more on that front, but you can make a big difference in peoples lives. i just bring that into the judging. i think my judge based on the law, but how does that affect me as a judge? i think i first of all standing in the shoes of others. we could all be that homeless person. we could all be that kid w...

Change everything at once, but just changing one life, one meal one day at the shelter or one kid that remembers something you said in a tutoring program, you know, if we all did that more and i fall short, too, i know. and i want to do more on that front, but you can make a big difference in peoples lives. i just bring that into the judging. i think my judge based on the law, but how does that affect me as a judge? i think first of all i, standing in the shoes of others. we could all be that ho...

And influence to bring money and exposure to the island and his people. how are you doing, man? >> great. >> how do you the hook up with these guys? how do you find the new guys out there? >> being that im puerto rican, i always wanted to do something that benefited the island. started a music festival to raise awareness about the social and economic crisis and also long-term goal is to create a full-fledged tutoring program. >> so not tutoring how to be a -- education. >> academic. >> academic ...

Either one, to bail them out of the situation. ♪ so puerto ricans like crazy legs are doing their part and more. crazy legs is legendary in the hip hop community. hes a part of the rock steady crew who were pioneers of the break dancing movement. at age 50, those legs are still crazy. he has created the puerto rock steady festival, using his name and influence to bring exposure to the island and his people. how are you doing, man? >> great. >> how do you the hook up with these guys? how do you...

Guys that are out there? >> being that im puerto rican, i always wanted to do something that benefited the island and started music festival to raise awareness about the social and economic crisis and also long-term goal is to create a full-fledged tutoring program. >> not tutoring how to be -- tutoring education. >> academic. >> academic tutoring in that sense. >> yeah. >> how did you know about it? i am of the age seeing break dance and thinking that is magical. what are they doing? i was at t...

Full-fledged tutoring program. >> not tutoring how to be -- tutoring education. >> academic. >> academic tutoring in that sense. >> yeah. >> how did you know about in? i am of the age seeing break dance and thinking that is magical. what are they doing? i was at the age a little kid seeing it, renting the vhss, trying it, didnt work out for me. do you think puerto ricans are getting enough notice for this? >> no. we get the literal first shows that presented hip-hop as a culture. and we were par...